Corner Bakery, a Diet Coke and free wifi. Greatness! I'm sitting here in between meetings and got to thinking about my new blog. Actually, I was up at 2 in the morning thinking about it, too, but let's not go there (sleep - gotta get some soon). So what am I going to write about? Concentrate on? Focus, focus, focus.I've got 17+ years experience in a wide array of affairs - public accounting ("audit"), controller ("bean counter"), and operations/sales management. And I’ve been around the recruiting space for 10+ years, founding a recruiting and consulting firm, then ECC Hiring Solutions, LLC (www.ecchiring.com). My strongest skill - my sweet spot, if you will - is building companies. It's so much fun - it's like bringing a baby into the world, watching them sit up, then crawl, walk, then run. Of course, they spit up and say things like, "Dad said a bad word, Mommy!" But I digress :)
I'd like to bring you some depth and breadth into the entrepreneurial space. Particularly focused on the recruiting industry. How do you start a recruiting firm and what should you be thinking about? How do you hire someone for the first time? Banks, funding, marketing, sales, social media, payroll, stress management and more. I've got some interesting stories from our first recruiting company. Like the time one of our employees decided to eat peanut butter in her cube, and how that peanut butter migrated to her LAN cable, her desktop, her laptop. Or the time we had two days to collect $515,000 from our best client or we’d miss payroll. We collected, but yikes! Or how we beat out 600 vendors to win a national contract with a Fortune 500 company – when we only had 7 employees at the time. How'd our little company do that?
This should be fun. I’m excited to get out there with you, so hello world! Hello recruiting friends! Hello business partners, friends of the recruiting space and vendors alike! I look forward to being a part of your lives. Let's build our firms together, one blog at a time.
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